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Vincenzo Vasi: Braccio Elettrico

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 4, 2011

Vincenzo Vasi è uno dei protagonisti italiani della rinascita del theremin, il più antico strumento musicale elettronico mai realizzato, opera del fisico russo Lev Sergeevic Termen, noto in Occidente come Léon Theremin. Con questo strumento (ma anche con esperimenti vocali e con altri strumenti “informali") Vasi collabora con numerosi artisti di vario orientamento musicale, da Mike ...

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Gibellini-Tavolazzi-Beggio: Put On a Happy Face

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 4, 2011

Nonostante i quindici anni di attività, questo è solo il terzo lavoro pubblicato dal trio costituito dal chitarrista Sandro Gibellini, il bassista Ares Tavolazzi e il batterista Mauro Beggio, a ben dieci anni dal precedente. Le tre diverse generazioni rappresentate dai musicisti si incontrano senza problemi nel territorio comune dell'improvvisazione jazzistica, alle prese con standard e ...

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Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor: Kaiso Stories

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 4, 2011

Merita di essere raccontata la genesi di Kaiso Stories. Siamo nel 2008 e Lars-Olof Gustavsson, cuore e cervello della Silkheart, rimane folgorato da Fay Victor, ascoltata per caso in un ristorante italiano di Manhattan. È lei la cantante che stava cercando per il primo disco con voce dell'etichetta svedese, un sogno che cullava da tempo ma ...

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Seabrook Power Plant: Seabrook Power Plant II

Read "Seabrook Power Plant II" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 4, 2011

Il banjo elettrificato della centrale nucleare di Seabrook nel New Hampshire (Stati Uniti) ha colpito ancora. Il secondo capitolo dei Seabrook Power Plant, power trio di Brooklyn capitanato da Brandon Seabrook, virtuoso del banjo a corde e di quello tenore a 4 corde, è infatti un altro pugno allo stomaco (il primo omonimo e altrettanto esplosivo ...

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Boom Box: Jazz

by John Eyles
July 4, 2011

Surprises can come in the most unlikely guises and under the least likely names. Jazz is the latest example of that old maxim to never judge a book by its cover. The combination of the group name Boom Box--conjuring up images of hip-hop and oversized ghetto blasters--and a graphic style reminiscent of Peter Brötzmann albums does ...

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Pear: Extemp'ore

Read "Extemp'ore" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
July 4, 2011

Most jazz albums involve at least a little bit of preparation: song selection, rehearsals, selection of sidemen and so on. Pear, on the other hand, is after something much more spontaneous and pure on its debut, Extemp'ore. The group is comprised of percussionist Rick Milne and keyboardist Nick Pierone. They enter the studio and play whatever ...

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Kayo: I Wish You Love

Read "I Wish You Love" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 4, 2011

Should jazz challenge conventions or uphold traditions? While opinions vary on this matter, pianist Kayo Hiraki leans toward the latter school of thought on this all-standards affair. As the daughter of a classical pianist, Hiraki had music flowing through her veins at birth and proved to be a child piano prodigy. She honed her craft at ...

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Peter Zak: Down East

Read "Down East" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 4, 2011

Block chords, swinging touch, trio setting, full-throated playing: this must be Red Garland. No, its New York City pianist and composer Peter Zak and his loquacious piano style, tasteful and full-bodied. Down East is Zak's sixth release for the Danish Steeplechase label. Zak's piano approach is easily stated, even and uniformly dense. His Ornette Coleman ("Invisible") ...

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Amina Alaoui: Arco Iris

Read "Arco Iris" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 3, 2011

Following her outstanding performance with the cross-cultural, century-spanning ensemble of Norwegian keyboardist/composer Jon Balke's Siwan (ECM, 2009), it's no surprise that the German label has tapped into the Moroccan singer for an album of her own. But as sprawling and ambitious as Siwan was, Arco Iris is, while being no less dramatic, on a much smaller ...

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Leszek Mozdzer: Komeda

by Bruce Lindsay
July 3, 2011

Krzysztof Komeda, the Polish musician and composer who died, age 38, in 1969, was a key figure in the emergence of European jazz, and remains a major source of inspiration for musicians across the continent. On Komeda, his ACT solo album debut, pianist Leszek Możdżer pays his own beautifully crafted tribute to his fellow countryman.